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al)uvc; viscid; color oehraceous yellow, or when very wet and swollen 

 a paler soaked yellow; texture tough, subgelatiiious when- very wet. 



Spores (of No. 3834) creamy yellow, smooth, bent, 3.8-4.8 x 

 !).3-ll.V. 



The plants are horny and reddish when dry or blackish when old. 

 The base is subtomentose from the mycelium. The color of the fresh 

 plants is removable by soaking in water overnight. The water be- 

 comes yellow and the plants when taken out dry whitish. With us 

 the species is not rare on deciduous wood. See Gillet, PI. 85 (118), 

 fig. 2. Calocera palmata is probably the same. See Myc. Notes 62 : 

 figs. 1656 and 1657 (as C. palmata) and fig. 1658 (as C. cornea). 1920. 



A ver}^ delicate plant on pines and cedar that we find here may be 

 a different species, but the spores and basidia are the same as in the 

 above. Lloj'd thinks it only a form. As extensive colonies run all 

 about the same size and never cespitose, I have decided to treat it as 

 a variety of C. cornea, as below. 



3824. On fallen branches of Liriodendron, December 5, 1919. Spores creamy- 

 yellow, smooth, mostly bent-elliptic, 3.7-4.8 x lA-lOfi. 

 ;vS;)4. On rotting oak limb, woods east of cemetery, December 7, 1919. 



3. Calocera cornea var. minima n. var. 



Plate 65 



Minute, 1.5-2 mm. high, slender, densely gregarious, but not cespi- 

 tose, simple or a few forked near apex or at any point, very rarely one 

 branched into several prongs ; stalk pale yellow or whitish, flatly and 

 broadly attached, round, smooth, several times longer than the yel- 

 low, slightly enlarged, pointed, hymenium-bearing apex which looks 

 not unlike that of Mutinus caninus in shape. This head may be a 

 little rough or even knobbed or forked. Texture tough, subcartilagin- 

 ous ; surface viscid. Base pentrating the wood by a distinct root. 



Spores (of No. 4088) elliptic, a little bent, yellowish under the 

 microscope, two-celled a few days after falling, 3.8-5.5 x 7.4-11/x. Ba- 

 sidia forked, about 3/x thick. 



4088. On a decorticated pine branch, February 4, 1920. Drawings. 



Chapel Hill, A'. C. 



